Re: Interactive guide for new users

[Philip K.]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > > I think "modified Emacs releases" would be a better term to use.
>
>   > They aren't real "releases" though, usually installing them just
>   > requires downloading a preconfigured .emacs.d directory.
>
> In that case, the word "distribution" does not fit them either.
> How about "Emacs configurations"?

Everyone with a .emacs file has a configuration, but that's not what
Doom, Spacemacs, etc. provide. In a sense, they forked Emacs, without
forking the core code, instead providing a patch-set in Elisp form + a
DSL.

I agree, that distributions is the wrong term -- it's not the same as
with BSD or GNU/Linux, where a distribution bundles various software
into a self-sufficient form. That doesn't make sense here, as opposed to
the Linux kernel, Emacs can exist on it's own.

-- 
        Philip K.